From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Programming on the Hell :-)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 10:22:54 +0200
Date: 2014-05-27T10:22:54+02:00 [thread overview]
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On Tue, 27 May 2014 00:29:28 -0700 (PDT), AdaMagica wrote:
> Google Translate:
>
> с адом с адой
> to hell with Ada
>
> (I do not speak russian, but the Google Translate results often are questionable.)
Yes, it fully ignored case inclination and preposition which distinguish
between Ада and Ад.
Female given name Ada requires:
программирование на Аде
The realm of Hades (Ад in Russian [*]):
программирование в Аду
or informally, jokingly
адское программирование (hellish programming)
The major meaning of English 'in' corresponds to Russian 'в' (inside). It
seems that the naive thing replaced "inside Ada" with "inside Hades."
Another urban legend is backward translation of "flesh is weak but spirit
is strong", which plays around flesh -> мясо -> beefsteak, spirit -> спирт
(alcohol) -> vodka.
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* Russian derivatives of Greek names comparing to their English
counterparts sometimes lack 'H'. So Hades <-> Ад, Helen <-> Елена (Elena)
etc.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2014-05-26 23:30 Programming on the Hell :-) Victor Porton
2014-05-27 7:13 ` AdaMagica
2014-05-27 7:29 ` AdaMagica
2014-05-27 8:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2014-05-27 22:41 ` Randy Brukardt
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